I take seriously what Chris Stoltz and Eric Herman have taught me in recent month about how Step 1 of TPRS never was part of Blaine’s original design/process and happened more as a result of Susie Gross’ groundbreaking work in clarifying the method, when Step 1 kind of “happened”.
So now TPRS consists of two steps for me. Eric in particular has written in clear terms about how establishing meaning, gesturing and PQA can and should occur anytime during the story creation process so why have a separate step for them?
(This is not to say that we can’t do – the old – Step 1 if we want. I still do it when I am being observed, because the gesturing and PQA are very impressive to visitors/observers/evaluators who are there to check boxes.)
So for me in my TPRS world I just think about stories as Step 1 and readings (for me that is the 19 step badass process I’ve been doing for about eight years now of Reading Option A) as Step 2.
Does anyone have any ideas how that change could otherwise be labeled? Eric has made it clear that Step 1 is not really a part of the purist version of TPRS/CI, so who has any ideas?